What Keeps Mankind Alive?

Song

Creators (4)

Translator

1. John Willett translator
2. Ralph Manheim translator of French and German to English

Composer

1. Kurt Weill composer

Lyricist

1. Bertolt Brecht

Related Works (1)

Version Of

1. Die Dreigroschenoper: Akt II. Zweites Dreigroschenfinale: Ballade über die Frage: "Wovon lebt der Mensch?" translated

Recordings (10)

1. What Keeps Mankind Alive 2:11 by Tom Waits (1985)
2. What Keeps Mankind Alive? 3:24 cover by Pet Shop Boys (07 Jun 1993)
3. What Keeps Mankind Alive? 3:24 by Pet Shop Boys (07 Jun 1993)
4. What Keeps Mankind Alive 2:09 by Tom Waits (1996)
5. What Keeps Mankind Alive? 2:46 by William S. Burroughs (15 Aug 1997)
6. What Keeps Mankind Alive? 6:18 by Black Sun Productions (2005)
7. What Keeps Mankind Alive? 3:15 by Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra (16 Mar 2007)
8. What Keeps Mankind Alive 5:31 live, cover by Jess Walker (23 Apr 2012)
9. What Keeps Mankind Alive (Wovon lebt der Mensch, Zweites Dreigroschenfinale) 3:53 by Kurt Weill Ensemble (24 Apr 2015)
10. Kurt Weill Tribute (live) 8:34 live, cover by Stan Ridgway (24 Aug 2016)

Links (1)

Secondhandsongs

1. https://secondhandsongs.com/work/158117